EU summit and Greece: Tsipras’ hard landing – Daily Mirror

EU summit and Greece: Tsipras' hard landing – Daily Mirror

15:12 clock by Albrecht Meier

In the Blink match between Alexis Tsipras and the other 18 euro partners, in which both sides have possible long preserve their poker face, Greek Prime Minister has given up first. This is logical, because after all he is sitting on the shorter lever. A comment.

Alexis Tsipras blinked. On the edge of the EU summit in Brussels, he has agreed with the Euro group boss Jeroen Dijsselbloem that experts from international lenders may consider the proposals of the new Athens left-right government on the financial bridging the coming months through its paces. It may be that the “troika” going away soon, “Troika” means and that the lender will of course be at a redesign of the Athens austerity program to listen to reason. But hold remains: In the Blink match between Tsipras and the other 18 euro partners, in which both sides have possible long preserve their poker face, the Greek prime minister has abandoned the first

. The process is all the more remarkable as it was previously not been the Greek side, which did not want to reveal their cards. The euro finance ministers meeting on Wednesday, the Greek department chief Yanis Varoufakis had traveled without any concrete information on the financial needs of Athens. The discussions with the lenders, he led the motto: Why talk about a sequel to the unloved utility, but when the new Greek government in the polls stands just as good
From this hartleibigen attitude seem Tsipras and his ministers in these to adopt days. Maybe they have recognized that the financial – not least because of the recent downturn in tax revenue – but is worse than we thought. Also Tsipras seems to dawn that the premise, ie that his country will come up to the summer without financial problems making ends meet, could prove to be a fallacy.

Time is short for Greece, and without a solution with the Euro-partners, it could also lead to a “Grexit against his will”. In other words: If Tspiras not careful and make the international lenders absence of agreement on the modalities no fresh money to spend, then Hellas could retire earlier that threaten bankruptcy

As a Greek exit from the euro-zone. for large sections of the Greek population would have a greater impact than the rest of the euro zone, Tsipras should now cease to threaten its European partners with the consequences of a “Grexit”. Ultimately, he sits on the shorter lever – and this insight is apparently gradually with the politicians of the Left Alliance SYRIZA by

No special treatment for Greece

Finally, Tsipras can not hope too, that. play off trump card that still makes parts of the Greek population impression: the representation of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble as Buhleute the euro-zone. If the head of the left alliance SYRIZA should have hoped that he would be able to win the French president François Hollande and the Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi for his project of a complete relaxation of the conditions imposed by the lender, so him last evening in Brussels have disabused.

Nowhere in the EU, there is support for SYRIZA campaign slogan that the requirements of the creditors belong in the trash – not even in the former program countries, Ireland, Portugal and Spain. How should the political leadership personnel in these countries also tell their people that they had to cope with cuts, if the Greeks are now getting an extra sausage fried?
Course, Greece is a special case. A six-year recession has left a much deeper mark here as elsewhere in the euro zone. But that can not be derived in the now imminent compromise looking for a complete refusal, is fortunately now clearly also Tsipras.